Word: exportable
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...phenomenon has to be observed from a global perspective. It is true that the American people have been damaged by cocaine. It is also true that producer and refiner countries are experiencing indiscriminate terrorism, hired killings, kidnappings and government corruption, including in the U.S. What is the difference between exporting a pound of coke from a producer country and exporting an AR-15 and its ammunition from the U.S. to murder innocent people in developing countries? Why are countries such as Germany free to export materials used to refine cocaine? Why do countries like Switzerland, Panama and even...
Bilbeisi's smuggling scheme, undetected by U.S. authorities, began with bribes to coffee growers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to obtain beans not subject to tariff agreements. The coffee, available at bargain rates, was ostensibly for domestic consumption or export to nontariff nations. To move the contraband through Central America, Bilbeisi's agents, financed by B.C.C.I. letters of credit, paid bribes to truckers, checkpoint officials and port officials. The coffee was marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before...
...sale of these systems will continue to spread unless the U.S. and other vendor nations take steps to stop it. At present the U.S. State and Commerce departments have strict rules governing the export of weapons systems and computers with potential military uses. But with the exception of the South African ban, there are no regulations preventing the sale of relational-data- base systems to countries that lack basic constitutional safeguards. "The U.S. claims to have a role as the moral leader in protecting freedom and democracy," complains Marc Rotenberg, Washington director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility...
...policy in order to punish Beijing for its brutal treatment of pro-democracy students and its continued repression in Tibet. Senate majority leader George Mitchell introduced a bill that would end MFN in six months unless Beijing shows more respect for human rights, stops using prison labor to produce export goods and curbs its overseas sales of ballistic missiles and nuclear technology...
...Mexican President)) Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said Mexico wants Asian investment," says Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank. "He wants it in high-value-added, high- technology industries ((that will)) be exporting to the U.S. What we emphatically don't want to do is to make Mexico safe for Japanese investment." Prestowitz' solution is for the U.S. to induce foreign investors to export certain percentages of what they make in Mexico to third countries...